Katherine E. Di Palo, PharmD, MBA, MS
Senior Director
Transitional Care Excellence
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
The University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

It is the policy of Creative Educational Concepts, LLC, (CEC) to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, and scientific rigor and integrity in all their CME/CE activities. Activity planners, faculty, peer reviewers, and CEC staff must disclose to the participants any relationships with ineligible entities whose products or devices may be mentioned in this CE activity, or with the commercial supporter of this CE activity. An ineligible entity is defined as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. Financial relationships may include research grants, consultant fees, travel, advisory boards, consultancy, speakers’ bureaus, other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company.

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Planners/Faculty:
Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, ANP, CNN-NP–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.
Katherine E. Di Palo, PharmD, MBA, MS–has disclosed that she receives grant/research support from Vifor Pharma.

Peer Reviewer:
Katherine Lee, PharmD, MPH–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.

CEC Staff/Planners:
Erin Spencer, PharmD–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.
Ashley C. Lilly, MHA–has no relevant financial relationships to disclose in relation to the content of this activity.

Faculty of this CME/CE activity may include discussions of products or devices that are not currently labeled for use by the FDA. The faculty have been informed of their responsibility to disclose to the audience if they will be discussing off-label or investigational uses (any uses not approved by the FDA) of products or devices. CEC, the faculty, and any commercial supporter of this activity do not endorse the use of any product outside of the FDA labeled indications. Medical professionals should not utilize the procedures, products, or diagnosis techniques discussed during this activity without evaluation of their patient for contraindications or dangers of use.